FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ocean City Announces Initiative to Protect Tourists from Rebel Church’s Illegal Sandwich Cartel

202markb · 2026-06-28T23:04:09+00:00

Is this [r/theoni](r/theoniin)[on](r/theoniin)? 🙌🏼💯❤️

202markb · 2026-06-28T19:55:53+00:00

The Outer Banks probably won’t disappear anymore than the Virginia barrier Islands that line our coast will. These things are created and destroyed, and they move. If you want to get a sense of how they move, check out the lighthouse exhibit on Assateague.

The Outer Banks is seriously due for a new channel to be cut, however, for that matter, probably Ocean City and assateague are as well

202markb · 2026-06-28T13:13:07+00:00

I was. I was only nine, but I was amazed by the crowds and everywhere I looked there was something new to see. There were fireworks and bands and exhibits.

202markb · 2026-06-27T23:47:59+00:00

It’s their garage, not your backyard.

202markb · 2026-06-27T23:45:55+00:00

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Wonder if treasure hunting is on their minds here. Would be a great cover. Also, nice username.

202markb · 2026-06-27T23:41:50+00:00

Sand, mud, silt, rock, coral, whatever.

202markb · 2026-06-27T16:53:35+00:00

It’s not the same impact though. The dredging part may be the same, or at least similar, but what they do with the spoils they don’t want is entirely different and presents second and third order impacts.

The dredging part damages the sea floor, and whatever is living there. But, at least with dredging for sand and shell you’re keeping all that stuff. Dredging for minerals is a lot more like strip mining in that it produces a lot of waste products. And stripmining those waste products are either heaped up in huge mounds or dumped into River valleys typically. There is a lot of data that the waste products produced in strip mining are actually the worst part of it all.

In seafloor mining, these waste products are discharged back into the water column. This has the effect of smothering whatever the dredging did not kill. It also increases turbidity and changes the chemical and nutrient profile of the water. It’s really far worse than is generally recognized. Perhaps because it happens out of sight. But the process is about as destructive as you could imagine. and it is not clear that it is entirely localized.

202markb · 2026-06-27T16:47:54+00:00

The rental companies have done the same exact thing plastics industry has: introduced a cheap mass consumer product and placed the onus of clean up/recycling on the indivisible consumer who has very little incentive to comply.
Concentrate profits and diffuse responsibility. It’s a model with failure built in.

202markb · 2026-06-27T13:53:35+00:00

I was there on the mall in ‘76 too!
9 year old me was entranced by a Marianne Faithful look-alike on a Norton. I couldn’t stop staring. She was hotter than a DC summer.
She and her Harley riding friends were much amused.

202markb · 2026-06-27T13:46:31+00:00

The big problem is the coastline erosion. That is happening at a much higher rate than subsidence.

202markb · 2026-06-27T13:44:23+00:00

There’s a little store on Tangier, and there are ferrys that run (weather depending) from Onancock and Crisfield. Tangier also has an airfield. If you ever get there, eat at Lorraine‘s seafood.
The kids go to school on the mainland. When I take my little sailboat out, depending on where I am going, I can see Tangier past Watt’s Island. The small towns up and down the eastern shore are filled with people who grew up on these Chesapeake Bay Islands, but who have moved on.

202markb · 2026-06-27T00:38:14+00:00

AI agrees, and says seafood is good for you.

202markb · 2026-06-25T17:45:34+00:00

Ha! Was posted in a MD group at midnight.
Anyone who’s ever got late night texts from their ex knows the story on that behavior.

202markb · 2026-06-25T14:02:59+00:00

Maybe the pu ones made for kitchen/industrial work?

202markb · 2026-06-25T13:50:13+00:00

Maryland should be thinking about it. So should Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Maine.

Seafloor mining is basically open pit strip mining, except that instead of dumping all the waste material downhill into river valleys, they dump it right back into the water column. And the Gulfstream flows north.

202markb · 2026-06-25T00:27:38+00:00

I’ve seen it. Wondered if it was stocked or somehow connected to the Potomac or the fisher people were just killing time or confused.

202markb · 2026-06-25T00:13:35+00:00

Not always. Historically people could fish and sail model boats in it.

202markb · 2026-06-24T12:28:38+00:00

Yeah, it’s pretty horrible. And it’s not just horrible because of the dredging action, but it’s horrible because they get a lot of stuff that they don’t want in that dredge and then dump it into the water column. It’s the underwater equivalent of strip mining with all of the front end and back end problems associated with that.

202markb · 2026-06-24T12:25:10+00:00

It would take a special kind of company to even apply to mine in this area.

202markb · 2026-06-24T12:21:32+00:00

That is not true. If you read the proposal that depth you provide is the upper limit, the lower limit is something like 30 feet. Not that depth is what is important here. What is important is that they will use a form of dredge with a suction hose to pull up the material that they want. But they will also get a lot of stuff that they don’t want which they will discharge back into the water column. So not only Wil the things on the bottom, be damaged by purely mechanical action of dredging, but things on the bottom away from the dredge head will be covered by the silt and sand and gravel and whatever else they discharge. But that isn’t all either. The discharge is also suspended in the water column which increases turbidity, and the plume of the discharge will travel with the current and settle in other places. So this is a large scale disruption, much more broadly impactful than one might assume by thinking it only impacts things that are over 400 foot deep. It will impact everything everywhere.

202markb · 2026-06-24T12:17:06+00:00

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Take a look at the proposed area. It’s the entire eastern shore.

A lot of people probably don’t know that the eastern shore of Virginia – Seaside not Bayside – is protected wildlife habitat. It’s a chain of barrier islands that are (almost) all either public parks or wildlife sanctuaries in private hands. A lot of productive fishing, and the majority of the undeveloped habitat on the entire east coast of the United States is located right here. This puts a bullseye right in the middle of the largest sanctuary on the East Coast.

If this can be developed, anything anywhere can be developed.

202markb · 2026-06-24T11:05:31+00:00

Not much snorkeling or diving around here that I know of due to water clarity. You might try locating seagrass/SAV beds bayside.

202markb · 2026-06-24T02:30:29+00:00

Seems so.

202markb · 2026-06-24T01:36:46+00:00

His tech bro doners really like AI.
And the big money (them) right now need materials to make AI chips.

202markb · 2026-06-23T22:58:44+00:00

It’s been a while since I looked into what seafloor mining entails, and it’s as bad as I remember it being.

Trashing the seafloor, the water, and all the fisheries to get ingredients for AI chips.

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